Sister Yu usually prepares dinner before going home from get off work.

But it gets dark early in winter and the weather is freezing cold, so Shen Mingzhu asked Sister Yu to leave work half an hour earlier. Before leaving get off work, she only needed to steam the rice, and Shen Mingzhu would cook the dishes herself.

Thinking that Pei Yang would be back soon, she started cooking.

When the dishes are out of the pot, Pei Yang can go home and have hot meals and dishes.

The same is true today.

When it was almost seven o'clock, Shen Mingzhu heated the oil in a pan and started to stew the mutton.

Around 7:30, Pei Yang came back and the mutton in the pot was almost soft. He added the side dishes and seasonings, stir-fried it slightly and served.

Pei Yang washed his hands and sat at the dining table. Looking at the hot and fragrant braised mutton, he praised Pei Ziheng sitting opposite him: "Your mother's cooking is still the most delicious. If she cooked at home every day, my father and I would have a good time every day."

Shen Mingzhu glanced at the man. Want to CPU her? Dream on.

"I never saw you skipping two bites of the dinner Sister Yu made for me before."

"Well, it's already been made, it would be a waste if we don't eat it. But Sister Yu's cooking skills are really not as good as yours, right, Guoguo?"

“Ahh.”

Guoguo in the baby basket kicked up his short legs, staring at the braised lamb on the table with his black grape eyes without blinking, and his crystal saliva flowed from the corners of his mouth.

Shen Mingzhu bent down and picked up her daughter, sat on the sofa, and replaced the dirty bib that was almost soaked with a clean one. She said to the father and son, "You guys eat first, I'll come over after I'm done."

Pei Yang was really greedy. After all, he was running outside all day and consumed a lot of energy.

He quickly grabbed a piece of mutton and stuffed it into his mouth, a look of satisfaction on his face. He then turned his body towards the mother and daughter in the living room, watched Shen Mingzhu change her daughter's bib, and asked about Zhuang Xueqi.

When Zhuang Xueqi came to the factory, he was out. He only found out that Zhuang Xueqi had come when he returned to the factory for lunch at noon.

Although he called home and knew that Zhuang Xueqi had not made things difficult for his wife, he still felt a little worried.

"Why did she come to see you again?"

"Give me a present."

"What gift?"

"Give me a purse."

"She's so kind?"

"Don't mind your own business with women."

Shen Mingzhu changed the bib, straightened her daughter's collar, looked into her daughter's big eyes like black grapes, and couldn't help but take a bite of her soft and tender face.

Her movements were very gentle and little Guoguo didn't feel any pain at all. Instead, she thought her mother was playing with her and she danced and giggled with joy.

"Mom is going to eat, you be good and play by yourself for a while, okay?"

“Ahh~”

I don’t know whether he understood it or not, his big black eyes were shining brightly and full of anticipation.

Shen Mingzhu tried to put her daughter back into the baby basket and stuffed the rattle into her daughter's little paws.

The crisp tinkling sound of the bell instantly attracted Xiao Guoguo's attention.

Seeing this, Shen Mingzhu returned to the dining table with a sigh of relief.

"Have a meal."

The father and son were already starving, and as soon as she said that, they couldn't wait to grab their chopsticks and eat heartily.

After eating and drinking, Pei Yang was still the one cleaning up the "battlefield".

While her daughter was playing with her son, Shen Mingzhu brought in the diapers and bibs that were drying on the balcony and spread them on the heating pipe to dry.

She also took the bibs and diapers that she had baked two days ago to the room, folded them up one by one, and put them in the storage basket for easy access.

While folding the dishes, Pei Yang washed them and returned to the bedroom.

"Is this the purse Miss Zhuang gave you? It's quite pretty."

Seeing the man carrying the diamond-patterned leather bag and about to put it on his shoulder, Shen Mingzhu walked over and took the bag back, "Don't break it."

Seeing her carefully wiping the water marks on the surface of the purse with a handkerchief, Pei Yang joked, "It's just a purse, not tofu. It will break if you touch it. When you carry it out in the sun and rain, won't you be heartbroken?"

Shen Mingzhu glanced at him and asked, "Do you know how much this bag costs?"

Pei Yang reached out to touch her again, but was blocked by Shen Mingzhu.

"No matter how valuable it is, it's just a leather bag. It can't be more valuable than the gold bars you gave me, right?"

Shen Mingzhu snorted, "You guessed it right, its price is about the same as a gold bar, but it's in US dollars."

Pei Yang thought she was joking. "You're kidding me. How many cowhides can you buy with one thousand dollars?"

"This is not an ordinary bag, it's a luxury product, and it's not meant for ordinary people like us."

Although Pei Yang couldn't understand why a rich person would spend nearly ten thousand yuan on a bag, after knowing the value of the bag, he really didn't dare to touch it.

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I was afraid that my nails would accidentally scratch the leather.

After Shen Mingzhu packed the leather, she placed it together with the packaging box on the top shelf of the wardrobe.

She doesn't plan to use the bag herself. She will sell it when she has the chance and buy a new house and collect rent from it.

After a few years or ten years, when housing prices have doubled or when there is demolition, it is not impossible to turn one house into several houses. Wouldn't that be great?

…

The next day, after finishing the work at hand, Shen Mingzhu called Pei Wenping and asked her to have lunch together, and to bring some snacks home for the twins.

When we arrived at the restaurant at noon, Pei Wenping was already there.

When Shen Mingzhu saw Pei Wenping for the first time, she almost didn't recognize her.

It's only been a month since I last saw her, and Pei Wenping has lost a lot of weight, her cheekbones are a little sunken, she has very obvious dark circles under her eyes, and she looks very haggard.

"Sister, why did you lose so much weight all of a sudden? Is it because you are not in good health or are you too busy at work?"

After Shen Mingzhu sat down, she didn't even bother to order food and pulled Pei Wenping aside to show her concern.

Pei Wenping smiled at her and said, "It's okay. I haven't been sleeping well recently, and I've been busy with work, so I've lost some weight. I'll be fine after this busy period."

"Others want to lose weight but can't, but I lost so much weight in a short time, and others envy me."

Pei Wenping said it lightly, but Shen Mingzhu could see that there was a hint of sadness between her brows, and she looked like she had a lot on her mind.

Pei Wenping refused to say more, and she didn't dare to ask any further questions.

After dinner, they returned to the factory. Pei Yang was there too, so Shen Mingzhu briefly explained Pei Wenping's situation. "There are some supplements at home that were given to us by others. I'll go back early this afternoon to find them. You can give them to your sister in the evening so that she can replenish her body."

"good."

"Mother."

Pei Ziheng, who was originally lying on the sofa taking a nap, suddenly called Shen Mingzhu.

Shen Mingzhu turned her head and looked over, with a gentle look on her face, "Did I disturb you? I'll go out and talk to your dad, you go back to sleep."

Pei Ziheng always had lunch in the food factory cafeteria, then went to Shen Mingzhu's office for a nap and went to school for class at one o'clock.

Looking at the couple's backs as they walked out, Pei Ziheng pursed his lips slightly, with undercurrents surging in his dark eyes.

What he said before about his aunt being sick was not just a guess, but the truth.

In my previous life, my aunt died of illness half a year later.

Otherwise, that bad woman in the previous life would not have dared to bully him so unscrupulously.

(End of this chapter)